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Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, FACS, is a widely respected surgeon and public health expert. As founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Dr. Rogers built an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life-threatening events, such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence. His efforts have expanded trauma care on the South Side.

Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH, serves as the policy director for the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. He leads the organization in coordinating, developing, and advocating for evidence-informed policy to end community violence. Besides this role, he continues to practice as an emergency physician and fellowship director in health policy with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His interest in violence prevention stems from his emergency medicine residency in Philadelphia, where he volunteered with the Healing Hurt People program. Dr. Fischer possesses health policy experience with both non-profit organizations and state and federal legislatures, including in Wisconsin, Maryland, and the United States House of Representatives. He received a combined MD-MPH from the University of Wisconsin. Currently, he works clinically at University of Maryland Medical Center and University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center.

Dr. Edwin Leap is an emergency physician with 24 years of experience. He is a well known communicator and a successful columnist, writing about everything from medicine to family, faith to culture and everything in between.

Mr. Omar Khateeb is an innovator in a field where traditional reigns. Starting as a device sales rep, Mr. Khateeb has carved a niche as a thought leader in the space of medical device sales. He advocates for social media in medical device sales and has the tract record to prove it. He is the host of two podcasts, The State of Medtech and Mind Loom, and is an active presence on social media, particularly LinkedIn.

Miss Kirubanandan, affectionately known as Simi, Smriti Kirubanandan is an experienced healthcare strategist with 14 years of work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and innovation.

She is a board member of the Word Food Bank, where she focuses on equity and equality in the space of nutritious food and making an impact to improve public health by eradicating hunger and improving food policy.

She is the executive producer of the HLTH Forward Podcast and contributor to MedCity News.

Mr. Michael Johnson is a lawyer who specializes in physician contracts. He has an active social media presence where he can be found educating physicians on best practices when it comes to negotiating and signing contracts. He is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and Louisiana, and graduated from Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Virk is a Neurologist trained in interventional spine and pain management who founded the startup, MediSprout.

MediSprout connects doctors with their patients using secure two-way video through a platform that can be downloaded onto a smart device or desktop. It promotes continuity of care by keeping doctors and patients better connected between visits, providing an easy way to refill prescriptions, review test results, ask questions or simply check in on a care plan.

He is the director of Experiential Learning and Clinical Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. He is actively involved in patient care and policy at the WVU Integrative Pain Management Center. And he is the host of the Pain Pod on the Pharmacy Podcast Network.

Today we discuss the implications of President Biden’s decision to issue a mass pardon for those with federal convictions for marijuana possession.

Patient, activist, and lobbyist, Miss Stewart uses her experience as a patient to garner experience as a public policy advocate for chronic pain patients. She has an unusually high success rate in enacting legislation at the state and federal level. Recently she advocated for patient centric policies at the CDC.

Kathleen J. O’Shea, Professor of English at Monroe Community College (Rochester, N.Y.) is a 44-year migraine sufferer, has taken her passion for literature and her chronic illness to create So Much More than A Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature. Kathy has transitioned from being a migraine patient to one who wants to combine her life experience and her professional expertise to help migraine sufferers understand they are not alone, and for those who are fortunate not to suffer from this condition, to become more empathetic and understanding of those who do.